I dunno about the theology of All Dogs Go To Heaven (well, I do but don't want to argue it).

With some people, animals are not important. Look at the Xlintons who gave away poor Socks the WH cat and let Buddy the WH dog get run over after they shamelessly pandered to animal loving voters. (No, not the icky kind of dog lovers like our current prez, I mean people who actually love them, not just the taste of them.)

The clip is not entirely accurate concerning the dinner table. Bill Ayers Obama said "Away from the dinner table" he ate grasshoppers, dog, and snake. Seems like he and Lolo were in the Kill it, and Grill it club. I wonder if the Nugent's got the idea and title for their book from reading the Ayers Obama book, Dreams from my father?

"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

"The diff comes when a child figures out that you're pointing at an object."

Dogs actually are so in sync with humans they recognize the finger pointing and will look when larger brained primates not so acclimated to us will miss that meaning.

Dogs have been joined at the hip with humanity so long, what a pointed finger means has become almost intellectually known to them. I found that interesting when scientist figured that one out.

A common test of frontal lobe development is often the test of awareness that a reflection is of the observer. A dolphin one puts a paint spot on will go to a mirror nearby and look at what you did to that particular body part one painted.

Also other tests dolphins actually outdo humans in, such as the number of meaningless sounds they can repeat back in tests scoping out that capacity.

Dogs have been joined at the hip with humanity so long, what a pointed finger means has become almost intellectually known to them. I found that interesting when scientist figured that one out.

I saw a documentary I think on NGC where foxes were raised to be naturally tame by selectively breeding them for timidity and lack of aggression (ie: lower adrenaline levels). They were able to achieve cute cuddly foxes within a few generations. And an added plus was the different coat patterns that cropped up, with the ears drooping.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

Lolo, although Muslim, was introducing Obama to animism, the idea that you can absorb the qualities/virtues of prey or enemies you kill by eating them. That's classic animism as even the Kenyan admits.

"I know you libs like to reassure each other that that is true when you're smoking a doob in your nude poetry-chanting circle of Gaia but that doesn't make it true."

I don't know; his derisive narrative of what it must be like not to believe as he does lack that insane, glassy eye shrillness some people have to their imaginary non Christian worlds, So it doesn't bother me as much as some insane things I've read in this place.

"Most conservatives seem to still be wrestling with the concept of hybrid vigor."

Mention hybrid to erica and you'd probably get a soliloquy about the evil conspiracy behind the allegedly dysfunctional Volt automobile. So be careful the context you use that word in and around whom you say it in front of.

I don't know; his derisive narrative of what it must be like not to believe as he does lack that insane, glassy eye shrillness some people have to their imaginary non Christian worlds, So it doesn't bother me as much as some insane things I've read in this place.

I put some clothes this week in one of those Gaia clothes/shoes give away receptacles, only because the local Goodwill said it temporarily couldn't take anymore. How did Too Conservative know?

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

Well, some of us understand evolution is a constant, and dynamic force always doing what it has always done on our 4.5 billion year old planet.

How many species are their on earth?

Take that number and multiply it by 10. That is the number of living years that have occurred in the last 10 years. Not one thing evolved into a new species. It never has and never will. It is sad you put your faith in emptiness.

No. Actually they did a fascinating study that showed the used to human culture over thousands of years dogs got it with no training in the vast majority of cases, while the larger brained, but not so used to humans species of other large apes did not get the clue what it meant.

Take that number and multiply it by 10. That is the number of living years that have occurred in the last 10 years. Not one thing evolved into a new species. It never has and never will. It is sad you put your faith in emptiness."

I am not going to debate it with you as your erroneous view is based on subjective religious dogma, not fact.

Tell you what; you believe as you wish on this, I'll believe what I know is fact.

You have worn out my desire to argue religious matters in any way with you.

You are arrogant, love to belittle and insult, and are too full of cocky hubris.

You made it plain you hate my faith. That is your problem and your lack of consideration for others at work. Just keep that topic to yourself.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2012)  Dogs are better than chimps at interpreting pointing gestures, according to a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Katharina Kirchhofer, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, led a team in the investigation of 20 chimps and 32 dogs presented with the same task: retrieving an object the experimenter wanted, as indicated by the experimenter pointing. The researchers found that the dogs performed well, but the chimps failed to identify the object of interest.

These results emphasize the difference in chimp response to human gaze, which they have been shown to be good at following, versus gestures.

"The fact that chimpanzees do not understand communicative intentions of others, suggests that this may be a uniquely human form of communication. The dogs however challenge this hypothesis. We therefore need to study in more detail the mechanisms behind dogs' understanding of human forms of communication," says Dr. Kirchhofer.